Hans:- Well like I said, because I think it’s funny. Because anything that has a status has a kind of power, and power always corrupts. It must be allowed for it to be subjected to ridicule. When that is not possible anymore, you get nasty situations, a dictatorship or something. That’s why ridicule is so important.

Religious women: Do you want to achieve something by insulting?

Hans: - No, I want to make people laugh.

Religious women: So you are not trying to achieve a certain goal? When you insult a Christian for example.

Hans: - A goal? No I look at the world and I see a lot of things. Some things I find extremely funny or silly and that is what I make my shows about.

Religious women: You are repeating the same thing over and over, can we be serious for a minute?

Hans: - I am serious can’t you see?

Religious women: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, I am sure you will agree with her, called for the right to insult one year ago. Do you agree with that?

Hans: - Yes I agree one should have that right.

Religious women: But that is not the same as the right to free speech.

Hans: - Well, an opinion can be insulting, you see? So it might be that when I give my opionion on something, this could be insulting to someone else. Furtermore, an insult is to some people a truth they are rather not confronted with. And this could mean that we can’t talk about this or that because someone might be offended.

Religious women: So are you saying you insult knowingly or unknowingly?

Hans:- Well, when I make shows or a song like that, my objective is to make a good song, something people can laugh about. And an insult can be very funny too.

Religious women: Where do you draw the line? What is your limit?

Hans: - The line should be drawn at violence.

Religious women: So it’s okay to get people boiling from anger and then claim that as your limit?

Hans:- Making people angry? Don’t they choose to be angry?

Religious women: You insult a lot of people, this might be frustrating to many.

Hans: - Look, it’s as if you claim sensitivity and feeling insulted is a privilege for the religious only. Do you think that when I put on the TV, I don’t see things that annoy me? That I don’t feel insulted now and then? But one develops a shield to deal with these things. That is what you do in a free society, because you are inevitably confronted with things you don’t like. The religious are very bad at this because they tend to believe they have a monopoly on the truth. They are eager to say: “this is allowed and this is not allowed”.

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Religious women: Isn’t it more civilized when we simply don’t insult each other?

Hans: - That’s true, and the night is still young. But I don’t simply insult, I make jokes. And sometimes jokes can be about sensitive or controversial subjects. These kinds of jokes are exciting, that is where tension is found, and as a comedian that’s what you work with. Otherwise you might as well get rid of comedy or satire altogether.

“It all starts with suppression of a few freedoms and before you know it, you can't speak with out permission from the authorities. And then finally you wake up and you know what? It is too late.” - Allan Amanyire

“Criminalizing offensive speech is a far greater and essential danger to freedom than terrorism is. Anybody who wants to criminalize speech that they find offensive differs from the terrorists only in degree, not in kind.” - Andy Levy